Monday, April 15, 2013

What a great week!

Hola Familia y todos,

The weather has improved wonderfully! I am no longer
wearing tights, and walking around is so nice. Usually it is just
perfect, but around 3-4 it can be unbearably hot! And it is only going to
get hotter! But it is good now. I love it!

I don´t think I ever really explained much about my new
area, as far as who we are teaching and all.

I have explained a bit about Julieta. We still have
not seen her. We talked to her on the phone one time, but were not able
to visit. Most of the time she does not answer the phone. We WILL
NOT give up on her though.

Mariangela wants to be baptized. She has a date for
May 4, but we will have to change it because she did not go to church.
She wants to be baptized, but we do not know how well she understands
everything, so we have to teach her a little at a time and review. Other
than not going to church, which she is working on, she is progressing well.

Edmundo, wants to be baptized but does not feel ready.
Because we are both new to the area we dont know him very well (we only met him
once). We are meeting him tonight and are going to see why he does not
feel ready and what we can do to help him. He has been meeting
missionaries for a while and we think he is ready.

Other than that we have found a lot of new people.
Anita and Vicente are also investigators but we haven´t really taught
much. Mostly getting to know them. Well, with Vicente we did teach
the restoration. When we contacted Anita she wouldn´t accept our Book of
Mormon, but after teaching the restoration she asked if she could borrow one
and she said she would read it when she had free time! God is working on
her!

But yeah, we have found a lot of new people. We got 23
recibidas this week. In other words, we received 23 phone numbers.
Some people lived out of our area and others were not really interested, but we
are finding a lot! I am excited to see how the last 2 weeks of the
transfer go and I have faith that as we keep finding and keep teaching, we will
have more investigators like Mariangela and Edmundo.

This week we had Zone Conference. I learned a lot
about faith. We also got new mormon.org
cards. They have the smart phone code. This means when we are contacting
we can take people on the street to Mormon.org and show them a video or they can
see the questions that REAL Mormons have answered. What a great tool to
use. It was a website we had been giving people and telling them to go
check out, but now we can take them there while we are contacting on the
street! Technology is amazing! If anyone cannot tell, I am STOKED
about this.

It has been a great week. I love being a missionary,
and learning every day. Every day is an adventure on the mission.
Every day is hard, but I would not change a thing about the mission! I
LOVE IT ALL!

I think about all of you often. I hope you are all
doing well and doing everything you can to improve your relationship with your
Savior Jesus Christ. Anything is possible if you have faith! I LOVE
you all!